OCALA, FL (352today.com) – UPDATE 2/22/24 4:49 p.m.: A service alert has been posted on AT&T’s outages webpage stating that wireless service has been restored to all of its affected customers.
ORIGINAL 2/22/24 8:50 a.m.: If you are experiencing cell phone problems, you’re not alone.
A number of Americans are dealing with cellular outages on AT&T, Cricket Wireless, Verizon, T-Mobile and other service providers, according to data from Downdetector.
If you use any of these carriers, you could be seeing an “SOS” symbol at the top of your phone.
AT&T had more than 64,000 outages this morning, in coast-to-coast locations including many areas in Florida and the 352. The outages began at approximately 3:30 a.m. ET. The carrier has more than 240 million subscribers, the country’s largest.
|OUTAGE MAP: AT&T outage and reported problems
“Some of our customers are experiencing wireless service interruptions this morning. We are working urgently to restore service to them. We encourage the use of Wi-Fi calling until service is restored,” AT&T said in a statement.
Cricket Wireless had more than 13,000, the outage tracking website said Thursday. Verizon had more than 4,000 outages and T-Mobile had more than 1,900 outages. Boost Mobile had about 700 outages.
The outages are impacting essential services, including people’s ability to contact first responders.
“Verizon’s network is operating normally. Some customers experienced issues this morning when calling or texting with customers served by another carrier. We are continuing to monitor the situation,” Verizon said.
T-Mobile said that it did not experience an outage.
“Our network is operating normally. Down Detector is likely reflecting challenges our customers were having attempting to connect to users on other networks,” T-Mobile said.
So far, no reason has been given for the outages.
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